Curriculum vitae
Sunil Kumar
Contact
Information
Research
Interests
Academic
Appointments
Department of Applied Sciences
National Institute of Technology Delhi
IAMR Campus, A-7, Institutional Area
Near Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital
Narela, Delhi - 110040
Mobile: +91 7835014019
E-mail: skumar.iitd@gmail.com
sunilkumar@nitdelhi.ac.in
Numerical analysis of partial differential equations, Domain decomposition methods, Partial differential equations based image processing, Medical image processing, Parallel computing, Biometrics
National Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Assistant Professor, April 2015 – continuing
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Research Scientist, October 2014 – March 2015
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, June 2012 to September
2014
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
NBHM Postdoctoral Fellow
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, February 2012 to June 2012
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, February 2012
• Thesis Title: Overlapping Schwarz Domain Decomposition Methods for
Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Problems
• Advisor: Prof. Dr S. Chandra Sekhara Rao
• Area of Study: Numerical Analysis
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), Department of Mathematics, June 2005
Ch. Charan Singh Univeristy, Meerut, India
B. Sc. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry), June 2002
Refereed
Journal
Publications
• Analysis of Some Numerical Methods on Layer-Adapted Meshes for Singularly Perturbed Quasilinear Systems, Numerical Algorithms, (2015),
DOI: 10.1007/s11075-015-9989-2 (with M. Kumar)
• An Analysis of Overlapping Domain Decomposition Method for Singularly
Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Journal of Computational and
Applied Mathematics, 281 (2015) 250-262 (with M. Kumar)
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• High Order Parameter-Uniform Discretization for Singularly Perturbed Delay Parabolic Partial Differential Equations with Time Delay, Computers &
Mathematics with Applications, 68 (2014) 1355 - 1367 (with M. Kumar)
• Layer-Adapted Methods for Quasilinear Singularly Perturbed Delay Differential Problems, 233 (2014) 214-221 Applied Mathematics and Computation
• A Robust Overlapping Schwarz Domain Decomposition algorithm for TimeDependent Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Problems, 261 (2014)
127-138, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (with
S. C. S. Rao)
• Computer-Assisted Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 4 (2013), 198-210 (with I. N. Figueiredo,
C. Leal and P. N. Figueiredo)
• A Hybrid Difference Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Semilinear ReactionDiffusion Problems, Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, 18
(2013) 155–165 (with S. C. S. Rao)
• Robust High Order Convergence of a Overlapping Schwarz Method for a
Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Reaction-Diffusion Problems, Journal of
Computational Mathematics, 31 (2013), 509-521 (with S. C. S. Rao)
• Second Order Global Uniformly Convergent Numerical Method for a System
of Coupled Singularly Perturbed Initial Value Problems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 219 (2012), 3740-3753 (with S. C. S. Rao)
• Parameter-Robust Numerical Method for a System of Singularly Perturbed
Initial Value Problems, Numerical Algorithms, 59 (2012), 185-195 (with
M. Kumar)
• High Order Robust Approximations for Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Systems, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 36 (2012), 3570-3579 (with M.
Kumar)
• An Almost Fourth Order Uniformly Convergent Domain Decomposition Method
for a Coupled System of Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Equations,
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 235 (2011)
3342-3354 (with S. C. S. Rao)
• Uniform Global Convergence of a Hybrid Scheme for Singularly Perturbed
Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 151 (2011), 338-352 (with S. C. S. Rao and M. Kumar)
• A Robust Numerical Method for Singularly Perturbed Semilinear ConvectionDiffusion Problems, Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, 18
(2010) 155–165 (with S. C. S. Rao)
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• A Parameter Uniform B-Spline Collocation Method for Singularly Perturbed
Semilinear Reaction-Diffusion Problems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 146 (2010) 795–809 (with S. C. S. Rao and M.
Kumar)
Refereed
Conference
Publications
• Cooperative Use of Parallel Processing with Time or Frequency-Domain Filtering for Shape Recognition, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 1-5, 2014, Proc. IEEE (with C.
Graca, G. Falcao, and I. N. Figueiredo)
• Fall detection modeling based on inverse problems, International Conference
on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 811, 2014, Proc. Taylor & Francis Group (CRC/Balkema) (with I.
Figueiredo, C. Leal, and L. Pinto)
• Automatic Optic Disc Detection in Retinal Fundus Images Based on Geometric Features, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8815 (2014) 285-292,
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition,
Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 22-24, 2014 (with I. N. Figueiredo)
• Wavelet-based computer-aided detection of bright lesions in retinal fundus
images, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8641 (2014) 234-240, Proceedings of CompImage’14 conference, Pittsburgh, USA, Sept. 3-5, 2014
(with I. N. Figueiredo)
• An Intelligent System for Polyp detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images, Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV, Proceedings of IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision
and Medical Image Processing:VipIMAGE2013, Funchal, Portugal, Taylor
& Francis, (2013), 229-235 (with I. N. Figueiredo and P. N. Figueiredo)
• An Automatic Blood Detection Algorithm for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
Images, Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV,
Proceedings of IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing:VipIMAGE2013, Funchal, Portugal, Taylor & Francis, (2013), 237-241 (with I. N. Figueiredo, C. Leal, and P. N.
Figueiredo)
• Numerical Solution of a Nonlinear System of Singularly Perturbed Initial
Value Problems, Dynamic Systems and Applications, 6 (2012) 367-371,
Proc. of Sixth International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (with S. C. S. Rao)
• An Efficient Numerical Method for a System of Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
6046 (2011) 486-493, Proc. of 7th International Conference, NMA 2010,
Borovets, Bulgaria (with S. C. S. Rao)
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Book
Chapters
• A GPU accelerated algorithm for blood detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images, Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision, Springer, (2015), pp. 55-72, ISBN: 978-3-319-13407-9
(with I. N. Figueiredo, C. Graca, and G. Falcao)
Academic
activities
• Keynote speaker at Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Physiological
Systems, December 05 – December 08, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
• Chaired a session and presented a paper at IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: VipIMAGE
2013, October 14 – October 16, 2013, Funchal, Portugal
• Presented a paper at International Conference Boundary and Interior Layers:
Computational and Asymptotic Methods, July 05 – July 09, 2010, Zaragoza,
Spain
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (MR) of AMS MathSciNet. Review papers for Journals & Conferences: Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (NM-TMA), Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics,
Neural Computing and Applications
Teaching
Experience
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Teaching Assistant
July 2005 to May 2010
• Tutor for the course MAL 110: Mathematics I
• Tutor for the course MAL 120: Mathematics II
• Tutor for the course MAL 230: Numerical Methods and Computation
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Chandigarh, India
Teaching Assistant
July 2009 to May 2010*
• Handled lab classes for the course MAL 111: Mathematics Laboratory
• Tutor for the course MAL 114: Linear Algebra
* During this period I was TA at both IIT Delhi and IIT Ropar
Achievements/
Awards
• Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship by National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), DAE, Govt of India, India, 2012
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Organized by the
Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Govt of India,
India, 2005
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• Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR-JRF) examination organized by
the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India,
2005
• Received Merit scholarship in M.Sc. at IIT Roorkee, July 2004 – June 2005
• Received MHRD Junior Research Fellowship, July 2005 – July 2007
• Received MHRD Senior Research Fellowship, July 2007 – July 2010
• Travel Grant to attend the “International Conference Boundary and Interior
Layers: Computational and Asymptotic Methods”, Zaragoza, Spain, July 05
– July 09, 2010
• National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), India
• Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
Workshops /
Conferences
attended
• IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical
Image Processing: VipIMAGE 2013, October 14 – October 16, 2013, Funchal, Portugal
• Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Physiological Systems, December
05 – December 08, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
• International Conference Boundary and Interior Layers: Computational and
Asymptotic Methods, July 05 – July 09, 2010, Zaragoza, Spain
• International Congress of Mathematicians, August 19 – August 27, 2010,
Hyderabad, India
• Instructional School on Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations, May 27 – June 23, 2007, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay,
Mumbai, India
• Workshop on Practical Aspects of Parallel Processing , Organized by CDAC,
February 05 – February 08, 2007, CSC IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
• International High Performance Computing (HPC) Users Conference on
Leadership Computing for Science and Industry, February 28 – March 02,
2006, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
Computing
Skills
Computer Programming
• C/C++, Matlab, Python
Operating Systems
• Microsoft Windows family, Linux
Typesetting
• LATEX
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